Imagine stepping out of the shower and finding a team of fully clothed people looking directly at you. While we’ll respectfully allow you to keep your towel where it is. Apparently being in a bathroom-sized room with a full crew in tow can be exactly what it’s like for the actors who bravely get their kit off for the sake of art. We salute you and your perfectly gym-honed bods.
Margot Robbie
The Australian actress insisted that she was completely naked for her full-frontal scene in Wolf Of Wall Street. Even when the director offered her the chance to wear a robe, she declined, telling Martin Scorsese, 'She has to be naked. She's laying her cards on the table.' Her breakout role playing Naomi, the real-life wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort, saw her wearing just stockings and heels as she stands in a doorway before seducing her soon-to-be new lover. She said, 'I think it's disgusting when someone would have got naked in real life, in the film they conveniently leave their bra on, or hold up the bed sheet. Seeing someone being choreographed into being covered up irritates me just as much.'
Sydney Sweeney
The owner of the most famous boobs in Hollywood wasn’t shy of giving them some screen time in Voyeurs, playing opposite Ben Hardy, who also bared all for the 2021 thriller’s sex scene. Sweeney has said of her willingness to appear naked on screen, 'People forget that I’m playing a character. They think, “Oh, she gets naked onscreen, she’s a sex symbol". And I can’t get past that. I have no problems with those scenes, and I won’t stop doing them, but I wish there was an easier way to have an open conversation about what we’re assuming about actors in the industry.'
Halle Berry
For her Oscar-winning role in 2001’s Monster’s Ball, Halle Berry said that prior to shooting the film, both her and co-star Billy Bob Thornton had spoken about the full nudity required for their characters’ sex scene. Filmed in just one take, Berry said, 'We both agreed to be uninhibited with our bodies, so it wasn’t just the woman who was being exposed, and we just said, "Let’s service these characters."' Oscar in the bag.
Angelina Jolie
'Love scenes are strange anyway, but when you’re doing a love scene with a person that you really have sex with? The only way to get through it was for us to all talk about the absurdity of it and make sure no one was feeling awkward,' Angelina Jolie said of her nudity with then-husband Brad Pitt in 2015’s By The Sea. The film, which centres around the breakdown of a couple’s marriage, was swiftly followed by the breakdown of Pitt and Jolie’s relationship in real life.
Kate Winslet
It was, according to Kate Winslet 'just another day in the office' when she stripped down for her role as novelist Iris Murdoch in 2001’s Iris. She said, 'I just go in and say, "Oh f-ck let’s do it" and boom. If you complain about it or procrastinate, it’s not going to go away. It’s a profoundly bizarre thing to do. As actors, you talk about it all the time. You can literally be tangled in sheets, and you turn to the other actor and say, "What the f-ck are we doing?" Dear Mum, at work today, I had so-and-so’s left nut sack pressed against my cheek.'
Jennifer Aniston
The Friends alum most recently stripped off for a sex scene with Jon Hamm in apple TV’s The Morning Show, but it wasn’t the first time Aniston had been sans clothes. In her 2006 hit comedy The Breakup, she treated audience to a glimpse of her perfect posterior. She said, 'It's one of those scenes that you sort of forget about because you love the movie and the script so much,' adding, 'I just knew that it would be shot tastefully and it was such a funny joke in my mind, that I just figured, "Well, just grin and bear it."'
Paul Mescal
When the long-awaited adaption of Sally Rooney’s Normal People hit our screens in 2020, it catapulted Paul Mescal to dizzying new heights of stardom. It also catapulted our blood pressure to dangerously high levels due to the sight of Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jone’s naked bodies. Speaking of his nude scenes, Paul says they were a 'bizarre experience' adding, 'When you put 10 people into the room, a boom operator, and you're being doused in fake sweat, it's just a really difficult thing.'
Barry Keoghan
The obsession with Keoghan’s naked dance scene in Saltburn shows no signs of slowing down. And now the Irish actor has admitted to Vanity Fair that he also dances naked in his own home it’s a a wonder that he even needs clothes at all. Of his viral dance he said, 'I wouldn’t go there if I wasn’t prepared for that, or if I wasn’t open to receiving what people want to say. I think it shows an act of maturity in your craft, and if it justifies the story and moves it forward, why not?' Why not indeed.